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Martens Centre
The Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, also known as the Martens Centre and previously as the ''Centre for European Studies'', is a think tank and political foundation of the European People's Party (EPP). As the central link of a large network of political foundations, the centre is a catalyst for centre-right ideas and thinking in Europe and beyond. The president of the Martens Centre is former Slovak prime minister Mikuláš Dzurinda. The centre seeks to ‘inspire ideas for action and shape responses to European challenges’. It analyses and contributes to the debate on EU policy, sharing its insights with European policymakers and the wider public. It also promotes numerous activities surrounding the discussion on the Future of Europe. Background The Martens Centre was founded by the EPP in 2007 as a result of the revision of the EU Regulation on European political parties, which allowed the creation of European political foundations and think tanks by Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Foundation At European Level
A European political foundation, formally a political foundation at European level, informally a Eurofoundation, is a research and advocacy organization close to, but independent from a Europarty. They are funded by the European Parliament. Their purpose is to act as platforms aiming at developing forward-looking ideas and concepts for their respective political family and providing a forum where those ideas can be widely debated. There are nine Eurofoundations as of 16 March 2009. Timeline 2003 Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 defined what a Europarty, or '' political party at European level'', was and tightened up their regulation. 2007 That regulation was later heavily amended by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2007. That amendment provided for the earlier-floated concept of a political foundation at European level, a legally separate affiliate to a Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Think Tanks And Civil Societies Program
The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) was a non-profit program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1989 to 2021. TTCSP was originally established at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 1989. The director was James McGann. The program conducted research on policy institutes around the world, and maintained a database of over 8,200 think tanks from across the world. Program history The TTCSP was established at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 1989. It began with its focus on think tanks in the US. In the 1990s, the program became increasingly global as a result of the political and economic transformation that took place in Central and Eastern Europe. R. Kent Weaver of the Brookings Institution and James McGann of the Foreign Policy Research Institute were asked to help conceptualize what became the Global Development Network, a World Bank sponsored conference in Barcelona, Spain. This resulted in the public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Schuman Institute
The Union of the Robert Schuman Institute for Developing Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (short: Robert Schuman Institute, RSI) is the European level training institution of the European People’s Party political family, based in Budapest, Hungary. It was founded in 1995 as the successor of the Christian Democratic Academy for Central and Eastern Europe. The members of the union of RSI are political parties, organisations and foundations and its main activity comprises political and civic education. The institute is named after Robert Schuman, a French Christian-Democratic politician, former French Prime Minister and Finance Minister, who is also considered one of the "founding fathers" today's European Union. The founding organisations of RSI The RSI was founded by: * European Union of Christian Democrats * The Robert Schuman Foundation Luxembourg * The Foundation for European Studies * The European People's Party / Christian Democrats (EPP) * Centre for Politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Republican Institute
The International Republican Institute (IRI) is an American nonprofit organization. Most of its board is drawn from the Republican Party. It is committed to advancing freedom and democracy worldwide by helping political parties to become more issue-based and responsive, assisting citizens to participate in government planning, and working to increase the role of marginalized groups in the political process, including women and youth. Founded in 1983, it was initially known as the National Republican Institute for International Affairs. Its activities include assisting political parties and candidates develop their values and institutional structures, good governance practices, civil society development, civic education, women's and youth leadership development, electoral reform and election monitoring, and political expression in closed societies. IRI has been active in Haiti, Honduras, the Middle East, Poland, and Georgia. In 2018, US Senator John McCain informed its board of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundation For Social Research And Analysis
The FAES (Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales or "Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies" in English) is a Spanish think tank. It is a non-profit liberal-conservative organisation with strong links to the Popular Party (PP); it is even known informally as the "People's Party think-tank". Its headquarters are in Madrid. Each year, the FAES publishes a Report on Activities, which can be downloaded from its website. Origin The organisation was founded on November 11, 2002. Prior to the creation of the FAES, there were five separate foundations, all linked to the PP. These were: Fundación Cánovas del Castillo, Popular Iberoamericana, Popular Iberoamericana de Análisis y Estudios Sociales, Popular Iberoamericana de Estudios Europeos y el Instituto de Formación Política. These five foundations merged, becoming FAES. Founding principles The FAES seeks to reinforce values such as Western freedom, democracy and humanism. Some of its founding principles include: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Values Think-Tank
European Values () is a Czech non-governmental organisation founded in 2005 and financed from some governments. Its incentive is to raise political culture in the Czech Republic as well as on the European level. It defines European Values as personal freedom, human dignity, solidarity, active civil society, market economy, democracy and rule of law. The organization promotes closer ties of the Czech Republic with the geopolitical West and fighting what it considers extremist ideologies. Activities The European Values organizes public and non-public debates, lectures, seminars and conferences. Among these are "Public debates on disinformation", the HOMEAFFAIRS – Internal Security Forum Prague and Stratcom Summit, which is marketed as informing about "Russian disinformation operations". Its analyses, policy papers and opinion articles published in newspapers or online share a similar thematic focus. A major program of the think tank is Kremlin Watch, which "aims to expose and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TOPAZ (think Thank)
TOPAZ is a think-tank of the Czech political party TOP 09, which is its founder. It was established in April 2012 as a civic group, today it operates as an association. Mission of TOPAZ is to transmit conservative ideas to wider partisan and non partisan public and to continue in educational activities that were coordinated by TOP 09 Internal Commission for Education in last years. Content of association's activity is discussion about society-wide topics along with independent experts, cooperation with expert committees of TOP 09, fundraising, creation of body alternatives to public administration outcomes and creation of analytical and conceptual materials that deal with individual issues and suggest possibilities of solving. Establishment of TOPAZ as an educational platform of political party was inspired by similar projects abroad, for instance Political Academy of the Austrian People's Party or Konrad Adenauer Foundation with a bond to the Christian Democratic Union of German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Academy Of The Austrian People's Party
The Political Academy of the Austrian People's Party is the educational institution of the Austrian People's Party (Österreichische Volkspartei). The “Political Academy” supports civic, political and cultural education by means of seminars, training courses, lectures, publications, applied research, etc. The Political Academy is located in the "Springer Schlössl" (Springer Castle) in Vienna. It is a member of the Centre for European Studies, the official foundation/think tank of the European People's Party. Development On 9 July 1972, the Austrian National Assembly passed the “Federal Law on the Promotion of Civic Educational Activities in the Area of the Political Parties as well as Journalism”. This federal law determined that the government would promote the “civic educational activities of the political parties through allocation of funds to foundations or associations”. The Political Academy was founded in the same year. In 1975 the definitive training and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Sturzo Institute
Luigi Sturzo Institute was founded in 1951 by Luigi Sturzo of the Partito Popolare (Italian Popular Party). The mission of The Luigi Sturzo Institute is to endorse research in the historical sciences, sociology, political and economical fields by providing vast documentation in the archive library, facilitate canvassers, issue publications and maintain various alliances with other national and international institutes. Located in Palazzo Baldassini, the institute’s remarkable building was constructed by architect Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane in 1515. The interior walls are decorated with frescos from various artists including several who attended La Scuola di Raffaelo. Within the edifice, the institute organizes and preserves archives containing documentation specified around the validation of the Roman Catholic Movement. In the library, other documentation is assembled, more specifically around the social sciences as well as modern and contemporary history. Ongoing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute For Democracy
The ''Konstantinos Karamanlis'' Institute for Democracy ( el, Ινστιτούτο Δημοκρατίας «Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής») is the official think-tank of the Greek conservative Nea Demokratia (Greece)(ND) party, and named after the party's founder, Konstantinos Karamanlis. It was founded in Athens in January 1998 with the aim of promoting the principles of liberal democracy and the open market in the context of a modern welfare state A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equita .... It is structured in five departments (International Cooperation, Publications, Events, Research and Political Academy). It is a member of the Wilfried Martens Centre (think tank), the official foundation/think tank of the European People's Party. Current structure Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (german: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, KAS) is a German political party foundation associated with but independent of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The foundation's headquarters are located in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, as well as in Berlin. Globally, the KAS has 78 offices and runs programs in over 100 countries. Its current chairman is the former President of the German parliament Deutscher Bundestag, Norbert Lammert. It is a member of the Martens Centre, the official foundation and think tank of the European People's Party (EPP). In 2020, it ranked 15th amongst think tanks globally. Establishment and mission The establishment of a “systematic civic-education program inspired by Christian democratic values” began being considered in 1952 by a group of CDU politicians including Bundestag president Hermann Ehlers, Robert Tillmanns, and Heinrich Krone. On 20 December 1955, the ''Society for Christian Democratic Education'', which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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